has anyone tried using newspaper as batting?
#22
I'm not talking about using low-COST materials, I'm talking about using low-QUALITY materials
Newsprint is highly acid and full of lignin, which both break down every organic thing they touch - including fabric. They cause yellowing, they react with light and they fall apart in laundering.
Look how careful paper and canvas artists are to ensure that their materials are acid and lignin free - if someone goes to that trouble to make a greeting card, isn't your quilt worth the same consideration?
This is one of the silliest things I've seen on the internet and I hope nobody actually puts this into practice.
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I am not going to try this, I just wondered if anyone has? My grandma made quilts and she lived thru the depression and never mentioned using newsprint, nor did I ever see any of her quilts with newsprint.
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Newspaper filler and the dryer? As others have pointed out, the quality of newspaper has changed through the years. My great-grandmother washed quilts infrequently and, when she did, they hung on the clothesline to dry. Times have changed and so have our practices ..... thankfully.
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I don't know about any one else's kids but mine put everything he could get his hands on in his mouth including his quilts. I don't think I'd want anything filled with a dirty flammable substance anywhere near my family. We use newspaper to get our woodstove's fire started.
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to me it sounds cheap and ridiculous. i particularly find it offensive that anyone would construct a charity quilt this way. what kind of charity is that? to give trash to someone in need? that's not charity, that's an insult. people who are down deserve and need something nice to uplift them and raise their self-esteem, not something that says they too are trash. for shame to those who do dis-honor to charity folks. and who would waste their time and efforts quilting paper to fabric? if that's all you have, i understand. but if you have better, use the good stuff.
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